Why architecture matters [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Goldberger

• Autore: Goldberger Paul
• Pubblicazione: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2009
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (288 p.)
• Disciplina: 720.1/03
• Soggetto topico: Architecture - Psychological aspects; Architecture and society
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- One. Meaning, Culture, and Symbol -- Two. Challenge and Comfort -- Three. Architecture as Object -- Four. Architecture as Space -- Five. Architecture and Memory -- Six. Buildings and Time -- Seven. Buildings and the Making of Place -- Glossary -- A Note on Bibliography -- Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Why Architecture Matters is not a work of architectural history or a guide to the styles or an architectural dictionary, though it contains elements of all three. The purpose of Why Architecture Matters is to "come to grips with how things feel to us when we stand before them, with how architecture affects us emotionally as well as intellectually"-with its impact on our lives. "Architecture begins to matter," writes Paul Goldberger, "when it brings delight and sadness and perplexity and awe along with a roof over our heads." He shows us how that works in examples ranging from a small Cape Cod cottage to the "vast, flowing" Prairie houses of Frank Lloyd Wright, from the Lincoln Memorial to the highly sculptural Guggenheim Bilbao and the Church of Sant'Ivo in Rome, where "simple geometries . . . create a work of architecture that embraces the deepest complexities of human imagination."Based on decades of looking at buildings and thinking about how we experience them, the distinguished critic raises our awareness of fundamental things like proportion, scale, space, texture, materials, shapes, light, and memory. Upon completing this remarkable architectural journey, readers will enjoy a wonderfully rewarding new way of seeing and experiencing every aspect of the built world.
• Titolo autorizzato: Why architecture matters
• ISBN: 1-282-35348-9; 9786612353482; 0-300-15577-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910814442503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II